PS270 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Trait Theory, Fundamental Attribution Error, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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The scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another. Study: participants in their 20s were asked to choose their favorite colours between two opinions, repeatedly and then graphed their overall preferences. Results: significant tendency for men to prefer blue and women to prefer pinker tones. Conclusion: authors speculated an evolutionary explanation: men go out hunting (greens, blues?, women would find berries (red, pinks?) Social psychology and biology: generally speaking, biologist study nature, social psychologists study nurture. Individual differences: how social situations and how they make people behave. Hi(cid:374)dsight (cid:271)ias: te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) to e(cid:454)agge(cid:396)ate, afte(cid:396) lea(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374) out(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:894)(cid:862)i k(cid:374)e(cid:449) it all alo(cid:374)g(cid:863)(cid:895) Forming and testing: theory: an integrates set of principles that explain and predict observed events, hypothesis: a testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events. Study of naturally occurring relationship amongst variables. Positive correlation: as one variable goes up, the other variable goes up.
